Recent Presentations

Zhu, Weihua. Disagreement in Mandarin: Strategies, functions and sociolinguistic variables. First International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse. University of California, Los Angeles, October 29-31, 2010.

Ziliak, Zoe. Phonetic perception and adult second dialect acquisition paper presented at The 55th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association. New Paltz, NY. April 15, 2010.

Zhu, Weihua. Social variables and disagreement behaviors: An investigation of ELFP communities in China. The American Association of Applied Linguistics 2010 Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, March 6-9, 2010

Zhu, Weihua. “You are wrong”: Linguistic evidence against one stereotype of Chinese culture. The 16th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Kunming, China, July 26-31, 2009.

Zhu, Weihua and Boxer, Diana. English as a lingua franca of practice: Evidence from a Chinese bilingual community. The 11th International Pragmatics Conference. Melbourne, Australia, July 12-17, 2009.

Zhu, Weihua. Classroom interaction: A new pattern for reticent students. Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Denver, Colorado, March 26-28, 2009.

He, Yunjuan and Ratree Wayland. Identification of Mandarin coarticulated tones by inexperienced and experienced English learners of Mandarin. 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL, November 10-14, 2008.

He, Yunjuan, Q. Wang, and C. Wiltshire. Production of English lexical stress by inexperienced and experienced learners of English. Annual conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA), Vancouver, B.C., Canada. October 6-8, 2008.

Habib, Rania. An OT account of a sociolinguistic inter-personal variation in the Syrian Himsi Colloquial Arabic. Conference on Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), College Park, Maryland. June 8-10, 2006.

Barkley, Sharon. The development and use of Brazilian Portuguese address forms in the foreign language classroom. 16th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Bloomington, IN. April 2005.